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deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

vicuna:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
36 vs 59
Hardware Fit
53 vs 97
Quality Score
28 vs 43

Hardware

deepseek-r1-distil… vicuna:7b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.323.4
First chunk27 msN/A
TTFT20.7 s242 ms
Load time15.4 s0.4 s
Memory usage1.0 GB5.8 GB
Memory %4%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

vicuna:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

vicuna:7b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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